San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-28
OUR BROOKLYN LETTER.

legislature has surprised the most hope
full OF the womans suffrage advocates. A
leader Of the movement in commenting
upon a World editorial that "Votes In
municipal elections may lead TO COM
plete Acknowledgement" said laughingly
that il made her about as wrathful rs the
use OF the word pauper In the same
has made the disabled veterans OF our
civil war. The idea that IL is neces-
sary for q woman to be enfranchised has
always filled me with indignation. |
have paid taxes on a large property ever
| since 1 was twenty-three years old, she
went on. Il have kept my own ac-
counts, collected my rents and taxation
without representation Is just as much
| tyranny for a woman as IL Is Tor man.
Ii il is not, why moi? My taxes had TO
be paid regularly, or | was amenable to
| a law which had no hand In making
and which had as good right TO vote
for OF against as my nearest masculine
neighbnr, who happened TO be al ignor-
ant freshman, although an alderman"
Mark rWain's speech ut the Stationers
| and Publishers dinner has had the effect
| Of stirring up considerable discussion In
| reference TO the examining process Of our
| pub ic schools. lie made several side
% lifting quotations from the manuscript
copy of n little book entitled "Engl sh
As She IL II ught." compiled by Miss
Caroline b. lie Row. and TO be issued
early in April by Cassell Il Co. Nobody
knoAs better than Americas chief hu IT,
"rIsT that nothing in the world could 0r
| funnier than the examples he cited: and
uring h kind-hearted man, and anxious
for the welfare of the race, he realizes
aunIIy that nothing can be sadder.
,nink Of examination papers that con-
| tam -uch answers rs these: "Henry The
eighth was famous for being great
| widow er, having had many wives"
The gastric Juice keeps the bones Tom
creaking" Lord Byron WAS the son II
| prutliyate and a lioness." The root of
| The trouble lies in the fact that the III. M
| ory is trained TO the exclusion OF every
| other faculty, because the public schools
| are obliged 10 graduate given number
| nf pupils. and If the teachers can only
| make the memory retain the heterogen-
| Gus mass stuffed into II till examination
| IRE over, that is all that can be reason
ably expected. But this state Of things
cannot last. Frobel saw this some time
| ago. and buided wiser than he knew.
| The fact is, that like some awful sore. 1t
| rs bound to come to head and cure 1t
| self.
Brooklyn is just now full Of hears, and
| most of them with very sore heals. At
| a meeting the other evening. very ex-
| citing one by the way, made up OF
| troubled politicians, agonized aldermen
| and the mayor, Tutti Frutti was freely
| INDUCED in. Boss Mclaughlin alter
mated with tobacco, and says that when
| the subject is particularly tough. he has
| TO go for his gun. Some OF them will be
anxious to go for their guns and wade
| of before the investigation is over with
| out much doubt.
1t is no wonder that the ladies who
| have been collecting funds for the en-
| dowment of some institution for the
poor to celebrate the queens jubilee,
should be disheartened and angry at the
| suggestion which amounts 10 COM
mand from her majesty that part OF
| the money shall be spent In the erection
| Of an equestrian statute of the Prince
| Consort. A friend commenting upon
| the new freak, said that in visiting one
Of the Oxford colleges recently, she no.
| ticed in the vestibule life-siZe statute
| swathed from head to heels, and natur-
| ally felt some curiosity to know what it
| could be. She was informed that II was
a statute of the Prince ConsOrt, and hid
| den from public view because the queen
had made "Ihe subject" so obnoxious by
| insisting that every institution should
| 90 UODOI ~ uis III
I'VE could not refuse to have it," thew
said land we couldn't give it away, but
| we could tie il up and we did" If the
| prince is aware of the persistence with
which her majesty foists hin upon an
unwilling public, he cannot be partic-
ularly happy deHiZen of the Shining
| Shore, for Albert was modest and kind
| hearted whatever else he was not.
It is rumored now that Patti has sew
| eral times been in danger from cranks
| who have grown wild by her beauty and
| success At one time in New Orleans,
as she was about to enter her carriage
after a meteOric performance, she was
selected as target for mad mans bull
| let, but escaped unhurt, as she always
has Patti declares that this is her fare
well tour. but 1t is Impossible to credit
| this statement, for her voice Is lovelier
| than ever. and ~ bird that can sing and
won't sing should be made to sing"
A blast has just struck me from Port
land, Me-, in fact a regular blizzard.
| Mr.. s. B. X. does not believe that ar
| ticl OF food are nearly so badly adul
| tprAted as sensational newspaper writer's
| would have US suppose, ard considers IL
| very bad tor nervous people 10 have
| their attention constantly q rected to
| such things. She also takes occasion to
! add that she does not want TO vote, and
does not believe one hundred women
can BE- found in the United States who
do; and declares that IL is woman's
place TO take care Of the house, and not
| liking 10 wash dishes is no excuse for
not washing dishes. More than
| this, she a0Vises that instead of
recommending girls TO trades and pro-
ftssions | had better advise them TO
cook, to wa.h and iron. and make soap
~ yeast. Now when advise mothers
or daughters to do the last 1t will he
WHEN have turned TO a gibbering idiot.
| A. long as the purPst soap can be fought
for song, and Fleischmann's yeast
cakes continue to be made, shall stick
| to my text.
Senator and Lieut.. Col. Bacon, Of the
| twenty-third, received an ovation Mon
day evening on the occasion OF regl-
mental review by Gov. Hill. This Of
ticer has always been favorite, but
now he is hero. True. Mayor Whitney
calls him that young man." and one of
the aldermen hints vaguely at a certain
"nincompOop," but the boys cheer him
and bid him God speed.
| ELEANOR KIRK.